A Lynchburg jail inmate died in an apparent suicide Wednesday, officials said.

Sixty-six people from 35 countries will be sworn in as U.S citizens at Monticello on the Fourth of July.

Search teams will deploy this afternoon to look for a man missing at Wintergreen.

Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, suggesting that the economy’s road to recovery will be bumpy.

A Lynchburg woman was hospitalized after her vehicle crashed into a utility pole on Campbell Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, Lynchburg police said.

There will be no Greater Lynchburg Transit Company bus service on Saturday in observance of Independence Day. The administrative offices on Kemper Street also will be closed Friday for the holiday.

An Amherst County employee charged with inappropriate contact with a child has resigned as the director of economic development.

Clearwire, a wireless high-speed Internet provider on the forefront of WiMAX Internet technology, has bought a license that would let it offer its service in Lynchburg.

After downsizing Independence Day festivities last year, Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest is bringing back a larger celebration this year, complete with music, dance, games, sword swallowing and fire eating.

Two Lynchburg restaurants are fighting to keep their license to serve alcohol as they work out a way to pay taxes that they owe.